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Each year more than 9,000 passenger vehicle occupants die in side impacts.

Both older and younger passenger vehicle occupants are benefiting from efforts to improve protection in crashes, a recent study confirms.

Airbags are intended to prevent passenger vehicle occupants from sustaining severe injuries in car accidents.

In 2004, only thirty - five percent of rural passenger vehicle occupant fatalities were taken to a hospital.

Almost 10,000 passenger vehicle occupants die each year in side impacts, and head injuries are a leading cause.

Front and side impacts are the most common kinds of fatal crashes, killing about three - quarters of the 28,896 passenger vehicle occupants who died in 2007.

Not good enoughUnderride guards on big rigs can be lifesavers, but most leave passenger vehicle occupants at risk in certain crashes

Underride guards on big rigs can be lifesavers, but most leave passenger vehicle occupants at risk in certain crashes

The advertisements target male passenger vehicle occupants ages 18 to 34 years old, a group that comprised 66 percent of unrestrained occupants killed in traffic crashes in 2010 — the highest proportion among all occupants.

The rate at which children die as passenger vehicle occupants has decreased 55 percent, while the rate at which they are killed as pedestrians and bicyclists is about one - tenth of 1975 rates.

Vehicles roll in just 2 percent of crashes, but these crashes account for more than a third of passenger vehicle occupant deaths.

«Side underride collisions are an important safety problem because they defeat crumple zones and prevent air bag deployment, both vital safety advances in improving protection of passenger vehicle occupants during crashes,» the NTSB said.

Accidents involving tractor trailers, or semi trucks, can be deadly for passenger vehicle occupants.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that more than 50 percent of the more than 21,250 passenger vehicle occupants who died in 2011 car accidents were not buckled in when the accident happened.

87 percent of people killed in two - vehicle crashes involving a truck were the occupants of the passenger vehicle

In the US in 2013, 2410 passenger vehicle occupants died in trucking crashes compared to only 586 truck occupants.

Yet in 2010 alone, 241 passenger vehicle occupants were killed in traffic crashes during the Memorial Day holiday period.

Front and side impacts and rollovers killed 24,056 passenger vehicle occupants in 2008.

Sadly, 76,000 passenger vehicle occupants and 25,000 heavy truck occupants were injured in a heavy truck accident in 2012, while 2,843 passenger vehicle occupants and 697 heavy truck occupants were killed.

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In 2009, motorcyclists were 25 times more likely than passenger vehicle occupants to die in a crash, according to the NHTSA.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated in 2010 that 4,280 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the U.S. and stated that pedestrians are «1.5 times more likely than passenger vehicle occupants to be killed in a car crash.»

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